The lap is the better bike. Get the zesty and swap the forks out for some 160 Pikes.

Personally, I think bikes where the top of the seat tube is lower than the top of the wheel just look very wrong.

I don’t get the road bike comparison. Road bikes have little tires and ths overall wheel size is the same size as a 26″ mountain bike wheel with it’s larger tire.

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haggling on high priced items I get but a bottle of wet lube?

Sorry where else thats not a LBS.

£80 is a bit different to a tenner. Somebody asked me what my best price on a top was the other week, it was already half price.

What on earth is a Gold Service?

No I agree with ANDYRM, Its your side of the argument if thats what this is thats retarded.

This is retarded.

Im with andrym.

Not being snobby, and in my experience its the less cash rich LBS that have to offer the best customer service etc to stay afloat.

Fair enough. I am just not keen on the big chain stores when there are still good and honest bike shops knocking about. I gues it depends where you live and whats available to you.

Am I the only one wondering why anybody would buy a bike from Halfords in the first place?

Do they make shoes?

Whilst riding Nanbield the other day I noticed lots more sissy lines through the grass next to the beautiful rocky singletrack. I dont get it, wheres the fun in that?

Looks good. The King cages with the tool bag are awesome, I am loving mine.

Didn’t get on with the midge but love my woodchipers but fancy some Jones loops.

Just me then.

Anything with a suspension design that works better than a single pivot. I am riding an inbred which is about 8 years old now. Its not “the best ride” and I dont have any photos of it in my back garden or leaning against something on top of a mountain, I stopped doing that about twenty years ago.

What I should of said is, it doesent matter what size wheel it has, you can’t polish a turd.

I am surprised to.

You would be best of selling the Five and buying a better bike.

Well I ride cross country and live in the lakes so does that mean I ride all mountain? But I like riding up mountains and then across them and down them so maybe its enduro. Any way the riding on my doorstep is far from dull.

And what legend said.

Bloody Hell, how tightly are folk clamping their bikes up in stands.

He He.

I must be lankey enough to leave my post in a good peadling position and have never found it to be a compromise.

OK so trolling a little, but a luddite I am not. Disc brakes, Susspension, bigger dia bar clamps/bars, tappered headsets, through axles, tubeless tires, long top tubes matched to short stems, different wheel sizes and all that I get. I even kind of get dropper posts, I wont be buying one though and was just asking who else gets on with out adjusting saddle height.

After a while you clip in and out with out giving it any thought. Musscle memory type thing goes on.

Problem with enduro bikes is that you can only ride it at enduro races/events. What if you want to ride all over a mountain, or down a hill or across some countrysides?

R2 is a great light. I also use a light called a flare on my backpack for road sections.

Or you could get one from your local bike shop.

In the lakes here. 2.3 WTB bronsons all year round.

Seems like a good idea, no one wants a tree falling on their Audi in the carpark.

4 Play Cycles in Cockermouth have some, give em a ring 01900 823377.

When my rocket v died I bought another one.

Boring

http://www.horizonhobby.co.uk/autoonline/j1-vaterra/j1-twin-hammers.html

Check out the twin hammers, slow touquey rockcrawling and fast stuff in one.

Definetly the shruken heads! there is also armour made out of fish.